I have two different "cellars"; one for my "home made" and one for "store-bought". Right now my "home made" is about 45% red, 35% white, 10% rosé and about 10% bubbly. My "store-bought is about 40% white, 40% red, 10% sweeties (ice wines), 5% rosé and 5% bubbly. I have to start making sweeties.

i can't give exact %s; but since many reds need to age, i figure i need at least 10 years worth on backup. whites i generally drink withib a year of purchase, so only one year inventory give or take. bubbles get treated like white for storing purposes.

A little over 50% red (no sparkling), little under 50% white, out of which 5% is sparkling. And a lone bottle of rosé (also sparkling) in the cellar.

Interestingly the red % has gone up rapidly in the last year or two... at one point recently (after my 2009 German/Austrian purchases) it was about 65% whites, though with a negligible amount of sparkling wine.

Salil wrote:Interestingly the red % has gone up rapidly in the last year or two... at one point recently (after my 2009 German/Austrian purchases) it was about 65% whites, though with a negligible amount of sparkling wine.

I know that story. After the legendary 2001 German purchases, my cellar was 68% white wine. The balance is better now.

There behind the glass lies a real blade of grass. Be careful as you pass. Move along. Move along.

Even more interesting than the proportions (at least to me) is that the average age of my cellar is now nearly 9 years old. the single largest vintage is 2001 (no shock there), representing 15.7% of the cellar.

Also, the cellar is 44% Riesling, so I've got that going for me.

Top producer is Donnhoff (again, no shock) with right around 10% of the cellar. Edmunds St. John (!!) is the top red producer in 4th place behind Donnhoff, Selbach-Oster and J. J. Prum.

Germany still leads the way with 42% of the cellar, though France is catching up with 37%.

There behind the glass lies a real blade of grass. Be careful as you pass. Move along. Move along.

Average vintage in the cellar here is roughly 2004 (thanks to a lot of backfilling in certain regions - mainly Bordeaux, and buying as much 01 German Riesling as I can get my hands on). Most of my cellar's fairly young, though the average vintage for my Bordeaux - a rapidly growing part of the cellar - is 1989.

Germany's gone down to 'only' 37% of the cellar - might be because Austria's up to 8%. (Of course, if you're Garagiste, you could always bunch the two together and throw Alsace in there, then just call it all old German wine. )

Interesting to see how the producer allocations in the cellar have changed too. Reds are heavily Rhone-dominated - Baudry at the top, but followed by Texier, Gonon, Verset and Allemand. For whites, Donnhoff at the top, followed by Willi Schaefer, Hirtzberger, JJ Prum (I blame Herr Bueker and a recent tasting of some stellar Prums that got me buying again) and Catoir.

Like Dale's, my statistics are skewed by not entering things intended for near-term drinking, so our consumption pattern is far more even, probably something like 45/40/10/5 white/red/rosé/sparkling. As for the evolution of these numbers, 10 years ago my cellar would have been 100% red, so it's definitely shifting more toward white and rosé and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Breaking the cellar down by age, I see that the average bottle is now 8 years old, ranging from 1961-2011. And the top producers represented are, in order: Ridge, Dom. du Pegau, ESJ, Dom. de la Pepiere, Chidaine, Ch. de Beaucastel, Cowan Cellars (!!), Navarro, Jean-Paul Brun and Vieux Telegraphe.

Hmmm, according to CT, I'm at about 52% red, 46% white and 2% sparkling (mainly white, but some red too). About 7% of my whites and 1.5% of my reds are sweet/dessert/fortified. That sounds about right to me! I think my percentage of reds has creeped up a bit lately as well. My average vintage is 2004.

Looking at the consumption figures I now understand why I keep having to buy Champagne. While it's 7% of my cellar it is nearly 15% of consumption! The rest is pretty evenly split between white and red.

There behind the glass lies a real blade of grass. Be careful as you pass. Move along. Move along.